A New Day is Mid City Civic Theatre’s inaugural fundraising campaign: a call to our community to help build a bold new model for local theatre. With your support, we can create a space where artists thrive, audiences belong, and creativity takes center stage in the heart of Baton Rouge. Together, we’ll make it a new day, a new model, and a new theatre.

At the same time, we honor the legacy of this beloved theatre while building something new: a creative home that reflects Baton Rouge today. A place where artists are valued, storytelling is centered, and the community can see itself on stage.

A New Day is the campaign that launches this next chapter. Your support helps us sustain the essential operational and programmatic work needed to begin offering workshops, readings, performances, and community programs in the year ahead.

This is not a beginning from scratch. It’s a beginning from strength, history, and possibility.

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The Immediate Need: Help Us Launch Programming

Our immediate priority is clear: general operating support to begin programming in the new year. Your gift provides the essential resources that bring this theatre back to life and allow us to activate the building we already own.

Your support directly funds:

  • Workshops, staged readings, and performances

  • Rights, royalties, and production materials

  • Technical and rehearsal equipment

  • Utilities, insurance, and core operating expenses

  • Community outreach and audience engagement

  • The infrastructure needed to build a sustainable organization from day one

These are the foundational elements of a healthy, community-centered theatre: resources that make it possible for artists, audiences, and stories to return to this historic Baton Rouge home.


Mid City Civic Theatre exists to create a home where:

  • Artists are valued and supported

  • Audiences feel welcome and included

  • Community stories are celebrated and shared

We’re committed to building a theatre model that reflects Baton Rouge—creative, collaborative, diverse, and community-driven.

Your Gift Starts the Next Chapter

When you give to A New Day, you help:

  • Bring theatre back to a beloved venue with more than 60 years of history

  • Launch accessible, community-driven programming

  • Reinvigorate a space that has meant so much to generations of Baton Rouge artists and audiences

  • Honor the past while building a stronger, more inclusive future

This is how we start the next chapter—together.

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